How To Manage Your Fridge Efficiently

You probably open and close your fridge at least ten times a day, using it to store everything from fruits and vegetables to meat, eggs, bread, milk, cheese, chocolates and yesterday’s leftovers. If you want to optimise the use of your fridge, follow these simple guidelines to manage your fridge more efficiently.

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You probably open and close your fridge at least ten times a day, using it to store everything from fruits and vegetables to meat, eggs, bread, milk, cheese, chocolates and yesterday’s leftovers. If you want to optimise the use of your fridge, follow these simple guidelines to manage your fridge more efficiently.

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pstrongHow to Manage Your Fridge Efficiently/strong/p pstrongDon’t overstuff it/strong/p pA lot of people cram food into their fridge, stuffing produce into the crisper and trying to make one more jar fit into that little cranny at the back. This is not a good practice, since overfilling your fridge prevents the cold air from circulating within it. This hampers its ability to cool, reducing its efficiency and causing your food to spoil./p pstrongFor More on Fridge Management:/strong a href="http://healthmeup.com/photogallery-healthy-living/10-healthy-fridge-foods/29494"Healthy Kitchen: 10 Healthy Fridge Foods/a/p

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pstrongHow to Manage Your Fridge Efficiently/strong/p pstrongPlan your meals/strong/p pTo avoid overfilling your fridge, plan your meals for the next few days and shop accordingly. Try to avoid impulse buying and stick to the plan as much as possible, so that you don’t have too much food. Keep an eye on the expiry dates of the various foods; try to use up the perishable items first. /p pstrongFor More on Fridge Management:/strong a href="http://healthmeup.com/photogallery-healthy-living/how-healthy-is-your-fridge-quiz/15181"How Healthy Is Your Fridge? [Quiz]/a/p

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pstrongHow to Manage Your Fridge Efficiently/strong/p pstrongPractice first in, first out/strong/p pFirst in, first out, or FIFO as it is known as in short, is a management technique that applies to situations like this. It basically means that you should use up the items that you bought first, before you use the ones that you bought later. So if you bought cauliflower yesterday and potatoes today, you should use up the cauliflower first, since you bought it earlier and it will spoil if you don’t use it up./p pstrongFor More on Fridge Management/strong: a href="http://healthmeup.com/photogallery-healthy-living/food-safety-guidelines-for-refrigeration-food-storage/16020"Food Safety Guidelines for Refrigeration [Food Storage]/a/p

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pstrongHow to Manage Your Fridge Efficiently/strong/p pstrongDecide what you’re eating/strong/p pTry to avoid opening the fridge door multiple times. Instead, decide what you’re eating before you open your fridge, or if you don’t know what it contains then open it, have a look and decide quickly. Some people remove all the food, heat it up, eat some of it and return the rest to the fridge. This is a bad practice, since heating and cooling your food again and again causes a lot of bacteria to grow in it. /p pstrongFor More on Fridge Management:/strong a href="http://healthmeup.com/photogallery-healthy-living/how-to-use-your-refrigerator-the-healthy-way/9790"How to Use Your Refrigerator the Healthy Way/a/p

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pstrongHow to Manage Your Fridge Efficiently/strong/p pstrongLabel your food/strong/p pMany times people open a bag of flour, use some of it, transfer the rest into a jar and put it in the fridge, without bothering to label it. The next time they need to use it, they can’t tell if this jar contains regular flour or cornflour, and since the two look so alike, there is no way to make out which is which. Similarly, a lot of spices can look similar, so it’s better to label them, otherwise you’ll be wondering if this is the regular chilli powder that is spicy but does not colour the food, or if it is Kashmiri chilli powder that is not very spicy but gives the food a red colour. Better not to find out the hard way!/p pstrongFor More on Fridge Management:/strong a href="http://healthmeup.com/news-healthy-living/how-to-store-fresh-fruits-and-vegetables/3117"How to Store Fresh Fruits and Vegetables/a/p

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pstrongHow to Manage Your Fridge Efficiently/strong/p pstrongGet a fridge management app/strong/p pNowadays there are several fridge management apps to help you use your refrigerator more efficiently. Right from planning your grocery list and keeping track of your expiry dates to suggesting recipes that you can make using the contents of your fridge (using the older items first, of course) these apps take care of everything. /p pstrongFor More on Fridge Management:/strong a href="http://healthmeup.com/photogallery-healthy-living/tips-to-avoid-wasting-food/31822"Tips to Avoid Wasting Food/a/p